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The boat is ready and we think we've got a weather window. It's time to push off from the North of Spain and sail across the Bay Biscay to France. Have we made the right decision?
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****VIDEOS ALWAYS COMMERCIAL FREE ON PATREON!**** A stunning anchorage with easy access to land and good amenities...with no other boats! What is this hidden gem? We sailed to Loch Harport in The Isle of Skye and enjoyed a week in this beautiful anchorage...
Our sailboat came with a staysail that included a boom. Our preference though, is to keep our foredeck space clear and open so when we headed out to go sailing, we left the boom behind. To make our staysail work "boomless", we rig a temporary sheeting syst...
After a year of working on our sailboat, it's finally time to leave the dock and sail our Westsail 42 cruising sailboat for the first time ever.
~ Ben, Tambi, & Molly | "SAILBOATSTORY"
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A family of 3 move aboard their Westsail 42 sailboat. As they unload the moving truck, the boat is filling up faster than than the truck is emptying. Will they find a place to store everything, or will they have to walk amongst their things using trails?
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Sailboats have masts. On those masts are installed all sorts of sailing-related gear & gizmos that must be maintained. One of those gizmos is the anchor light which, inconveniently, lives at the very, tippy-top of the mast... the worst possible place f...
It's been a challenging year of boat projects to get our Westsail 42 ready for cruising, but the time has finally arrived to launch the boat. As the travel-lift slowly creeps towards the good ship "Sea Rat", a complex cocktail of emotions including feeling...
With our boat being launched in 2 days, we rush to complete final projects. Our folding propeller needs grease, the bow needs cleats, and the ceiling of Molly's room needs 417 glow-in-the-dark stars.
~ Ben, Tambi, & Molly | "SAILBOATSTORY"
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With our launch date rapidly approaching we reckon it's time to officially give this old sailboat a new name. We went back and forth on this name for well over 2 years, but finally decided it's the one. It's salty, simple, short, and most certainly unique....
We install an engine stop cable. That's what this video is about. If you like stuff like that then this is the video for you. If not, well... just watch it anyways.
~ Ben, Tambi, & Molly | "SAILBOATSTORY"
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We add shelves to our closets, a baffle to the chain locker, and repair a couple of leaky deck prisms. With less than a month remaining before it's time to splash the boat, we're feeling the pressure to button up our projects so that we can start moving ou...
We install new ceiling panels in the forward cabin and Tambi demonstrates new boat yoga poses while simultaneously operating a hot glue gun. With the completion of this project, Molly's cabin has finally reached a state of completion where it no longer has...
If morale of the crew suffers then the risk of mutiny is real. This must, of course, be avoided at all costs so whenever I find myself in this situation I quickly employ the most foolproof tactic I know. I give them snow cones until crew morale improves.
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The forward cabin in our Westsail 42 has zero ventilation. There's no dorade vents, no hatches, and no portlights - nothing. This is a big problem because the forward cabin is Molly's room and she's going to cook in there if we don't do something about the...
The Lofrans Tigres horizontal windlass is one of the most common electric windlasses in use on cruising sailboats. It's time-tested, reliable, and spare parts are typically easy to come by so it seems like a great fit for our Westsail 42 sailboat. The inst...
Projects continue as Ben installs inspection plates on the diesel tank, repairs rotten wood in the aft cabin, and generally works towards preparing the boat for new voyages. It's been a long, hot Summer of non-stop boat work and if he doesn't get to go sai...
Before we could repair the leaking hull to deck joint on our Westsail 42, we had to remove all of the deck hardware that was mounted on top of the cap rail. Now that this boat project is complete, it's time to put all of the sailing hardware back onto the ...
Tambi and I lay on 270ft of fiberglass cloth onto the bulwarks of our Westsail 42. The fiberglass we use is 25oz double biased mat. We make 3 laps around the boat with my job being to wet out and lay the fiberglass strips into place and her job being to mi...
The Swabby, AKA Molly, AKA my best boat helper, accompanies me to FL where we get to work replacing a worn out cutless bearing, reinstalling the shaft, and installing a brand new PSS dripless shaft seal.
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The time has arrived to get started on rebuilding the forward cabin of our Westsail 42. It's current state is one of general disarray and incompleteness. Really, the only part that's even partially finished are the boards on the wall, but most of those are...
We bought a Westsail 42 sailboat and we'd like to show you some of the projects we'll be working on through the Summer to get her ready for longterm cruising.
She's a super-solid old girl with a whole lot going for her, but in order for her to be safe and...
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Have you ever imagined having a wood burning stove on your sailboat? Every winter for the past 10 years we’ve heated our boat with the Li...
Tambi and Ben head to Florida to move a Westsail 42 from West Palm to Green Cove Springs where they will spend the next 9 months getting the boat ready for long term cruising.
The plan is to knock out this little relocation trip within the span of a week ...
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